It's possible to schedule/publish posts directly on Instagram from Social Elephants but, as you may know, the Instagram API restricts the direct publishing to single photos or videos.
If you want to schedule/publish Stories, Reels, Multi-photo (Carousel), IGTV you still have the option of publishing via mail notification.
Before starting a publication you can choose between the two options:
In both cases you can take advantage of our workflow for content approval so that you can gain control over your content plan including all the formats available on Instagram.
With Direct publishing you can schedule content directly to Instagram.
If it's a video, you have the option to select the thumbnail that will be visible in the Feed.
Apart the Content Tagging, you also have the option to Tag People on photos and add locations to your posts.
Publishing via mail notification you can easily schedule all your contents, including formats not allowed in Direct Publishing, like Stories, Reels, multi-photo (carousel), IGTV: the media and post texts which will be directly delivered to the mobile device when it's time to publish. With your pre-written post text copied to the phone's clipboard and the media saved to your gallery, posting via Instagram app is just few clicks away.
When the time to publish arrives, a mail notification is sent to the mobile device:
Clicking "Go to Social Elephants" it's possible to access to the approved content:
- Just one click and the caption text is ready to copy/paste
- Long press on the image and it will be saved on your mobile photo gallery
- Opening the Instagram App the photo will be selected to apply the desired filter
- Finally, the caption text will be pasted before sharing the content online
